Exposes the national stories which turn out to be pseudo events manufactured by the PR industry, and the global news stories which prove to be fiction generated by a machinery of international propaganda. This book shows the impact of this on a world where consumers believe a mass of stories which are as false as the idea that the Earth is flat.
Dave Eggers erzählt in seiner vielfach ausgezeichneten literarischen Reportage die Geschichte der amerikanisch-syrischen Familie Zeitoun. Nachdem Hurrikan Katrina im August 2005 New Orleans verwüstet hat, schickt der Familienvater Abdulrahman Zeitoun seine Frau und die vier Kinder nach Arizona und bleibt selbst in der Stadt. Mit seinem Kanu fährt er durch die überfluteten Straßen und hilft, wo er kann bis er am 6. September ohne Angabe von Gründen verhaftet und unter unmenschlichen Bedingungen festgehalten wird. Erst nach langen Wochen erreicht die Familie ein Lebenszeichen, und sie beginnt, um Zeitouns Freilassung zu kämpfen. Abiturempfehlung zu den Themenbereichen American South und American Dream
“Tres amigas, toda una vida juntas, un club…” Cuando tres amigas del sur de Yorkshire celebran un picnic sobre un ancestral símbolo de la fertilidad, ninguna podría haber imaginado que en un periodo de cuatro meses todas tendrían los óvulos fertilizados. Las protagonistas de esta historia, Helen, Janey y Elizabeth, son tan cercanas y entrañables que parece que las conozcas de toa la vida. y las historias tan reales que podrías ser tú misma.
Before The Firm and The Pelican Brief made him a superstar, John Grisham wrote this riveting story of retribution and justice. In this searing courtroom drama, best-selling author John Grisham probes the savage depths of racial violence...as he delivers a compelling tale of uncertain justice in a small southern town...Clanton, Mississippi. The life of a ten-year-old girl is shattered by two drunken and remorseless young men. The mostly white town reacts with shock and horror at the inhuman crime. Until her black father acquires an assault rifle and takes matters into his hands. For ten days, as burning crosses and the crack of sniper fire spread through the streets of Clanton, the nation sits spellbound as young defense attorney Jake Brigance struggles to save his client's life...and then his own.
Who was Adolf Hitler? It's a question writers have been trying to answer for more than sixty years. But after thousands of biographies, histories, novels, and films, many fundamental questions remain: How do we explain Hitler's hatred? Where did it come from? Could it happen again? Norman Mailer sets out to respond to these and other crucial aspects of Hitler's personality in his compulsively readable new novel. Spanning three generations, and a hundred years of history, the book brings to life the Hitlers - grandparents, parents, aunts, uncles, siblings, and, ultimately, young Adolf - in an energetic and wildly entertaining family saga. Mailer recounts the marriages, incestuous couplings, estrangements, afflictions, and deaths that lead to the birth of young Adolf in 1889. Told in the voice of a mysterious (and unreliable) narrator, this playful yet profound novel blends fact and fiction in a stirring family tale that will cause the reader to re-examine his preconceived ideas about Hitler and the nature of his evil.
Carcassonne 1942. A spirited and courageous young woman, Sandrine, finds herself drawn into the world of the Resistance in Carcassonne under German Occupation. Her network - codenamed 'Citadel' - is made up of ordinary women who risk everything to fight the sinister battles raging in the shadows around them. As the war reaches its violent and bloody conclusion, Sandrine's fate is tied up with that of three very different men. But who is the real enemy? Who is the real threat? And who is the true guardian of the ancient secrets that for generations have drawn people to the foothills of the Pyrenean mountains?
1845: New York City forms its first police force. The great potato famine hits Ireland. These two events will change New York City forever… Timothy Wilde tends bar, saving every dollar in hopes of winning the girl of his dreams. But when his dreams are destroyed by a fire that devastates downtown Manhattan, he is left with little choice but to accept a job in the newly minted New York City Police Department. Returning exhausted from his rounds one night, Tim collides with a girl no more than ten years old… covered in blood. She claims that dozens of bodies are buried in the forest north of Twenty-Third Street. Timothy isn’t sure whether to believe her, but as the image of a brutal killer is slowly revealed and anti-Irish rage infects the city, the reluctant copper star is engaged in a battle that may cost him everything…
Remote. Peaceful. Picturesque. That's how the Mumford Mountain Hotel bills itself in its brochure, and it lives up to its billing -- most of the time. But this year, the hotel is hosting a prestigious conference for the study of forensic science, and the organizers have extended CSI head Gil Grissom an invitation he can't refuse. Joined by fellow investigator Sara Sidle, Grissom leaves the department in the capable hands of Catherine Willows and heads east. But he and Sara soon find themselves in all too familiar territory -- and back in Las Vegas, Catherine, Warrick Brown, and Nick Stokes have uncovered trouble of their own.
Het CSI-team in Miami krijgt melding van de vondst van het lichaam van een jonge vrouw die is aangespoed op een eilandje voor de kust van Florida. Het is inspecteur Horatio Caine al snel duidelijk wat het moordwapen is: een voor haaien bedoelde pijl die de marin gebruikt bij een experimenteel project voor het doden van vijandelijke duikers. Maar als het lijk op de autopsietafel van Alexx Woods ligt, blijkt de doodsoorzaak verdrinking. De pij is na de dood pas afgevuurd... CSI: Miami: Onderstroom is een superspannende thriller van Donn Cortez, gebaseerd op de in Amerika met vele prijzen bekroonde televisieserie.
Ambientada en Manhattan, Ceguera asesina relata la terrible lucha que debe librar la doctora Laurie Montgomery al enfrentarse a una conspiración terrorífica. Una serie de jóvenes ejecutivos muere a causa de sobredosis de cocaína. Al intentar hacer la autopsia a los cadáveres e investigar las muertes, la joven forense encuentra una inexplicable oposición por parte de sus superiores, de la policía y de los propios familiares de las víctimas. Pero Laurie está dispuesta a llegar al fondo de la estremecedora pesadilla que se teje en un distinguido hospital neoyorquino. Ceguera asesina confirma la gran capacidad de Cook a la hora de mezclar medicina e intriga.
From the New York Times bestselling author of I’d Give Anything and I’ll Be Your Blue Sky comes a “bewitching, warmhearted grown-up fairy tale about old movies, charming princes, and finding happily ever after in the place where you’d least expect it” (Jennifer Weiner).When Martin Grace enters the hip Philadelphia coffee shop Cornelia Brown manages, her life changes forever. But little does she know that her newfound love is only the harbinger of greater changes to come. Meanwhile, across town, Clare Hobbs—eleven years old and abandoned by her erratic mother—goes looking for her lost father. She crosses paths with Cornelia while meeting with him at the café, and the two women form an improbable friendship that carries them through the unpredictable currents of love and life.
"En 1969, en un barrio de Nueva York, se rumora la llegada de una adivina que asegura conocer el dâia de la muerte de las personas. Los hermanos Gold, a pesar de su corta edad, deciden ir y eschuchar lo que les depara el futuro. Las profecâias les narran su prâoximas cinco dâecadas. Klara, la soänadora, se convierte en una maga en Las Vegas, siempre obsesionada con la delgada lâinea que separa la realidad de la fantasâia; Daniel, busca seguridad como mâedico militar despuâes de los atentados del 11 de septiembre; finalmente Varya, la devoradora de libros; se sumerge en una investigaciâon sobre la longevidad, poniendo a prueba la ciencia y la inmortalidad. Una novela profunda y ambiciosa que juega con las preguntas que todos nos hemos formulado alguna vez: ÅQuâe tanto influyen nuestras decisiones en nuestro destino? ÅExiste una vida despuâes de la muerte? ÅQuâe papel tienen nuestros sueänos en la realidad?"--Reverso del libro.
Als een crimineel in Miami wordt vermoord, lijkt het om een bendeoorlog te gaan.
De leden van het forensisch onderzoeksteam zijn de onbekende helden van het politiekorps van Las Vegas. Onder leiding van veteraan Gil Grissom combineren Catherine Willows, Warrick Brown, Nick Stokes en Sara Sidle de nieuwste wetenschappelijke onderzoeksmethoden met het aloude, degelijke speurwerk in hun zoektocht naar bewijsmateriaal op de plaatsen delict. Een man wordt in zijn eigen huis gevonden, gewurgd en vastgebonden. Detective Jim Brass herkent de modus operandi als die van een seriemoordenaar van vijftien jaar geleden die nooit is gepakt. Maar er zijn nog talloze andere verdachten en motieven, waardoor het CSI-team al zijn expertise nodig heeft om de geesten uit het verleden eindelijk het zwijgen op te leggen…
Longlisted for the 2020 Women's Prize for Fiction Longlisted for the 2020 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction A Times, Evening Standard and Financial Times Book of the Year I was a girl once, but not any more . . . A young woman, barely more than a girl herself, must learn to survive with a child of her own, in a world which seems entirely consumed by madness. As she navigates a landscape of terrors and trials, can she find a place of safety within a society blinkered by mistrust and denial? 'Astonishing.' New Statesman 'Raw and transfixing.' Observer 'Miraculous . . . Extraordinary.' Mail on Sunday 'A masterpiece.' Irish Independent 'Mesmerising.' Sunday Times 'Devastating and moving.' Daily Telegraph
'This is a series for the ages, it's so spectacular. Really, really just amazing' Gillian Flynn: From the author of the highly acclaimed GODS OF GOTHAM comes another vivid, gritty, historical novel set around mid-nineteenth century New York's notorious Five Points
Janice Miller knows this: she loves her husband, her two spirited daughters and the beautiful home in which she has raised her family. It is only once the damage has been done that she finally realises how distant her daughters have become - and that schoolgirl Lizzie and 28-year-old Margaret now have dark secrets of their own.
Gurion Maccabee is een krankzinnig, wijs, grappig, onverbeterlijk, verontrustend en goddelijk geïnspireerd jochie van tien jaar. Hij is van zo'n beetje elke Joodse school in Chicago getrapt en wordt op zijn nieuwe school direct in De Kooi ondergebracht: een gesloten programma voor kinderen met gedragsproblemen. Daar ontpopt hij zich echter al snel als de ultieme leider, met messianistische aspiraties. Wat volgt is een angstaanjagende les in hoe de onderdrukking van menselijke en creatieve vrijheid, in combinatie met religieuze hartstocht en de energie van de jeugd, extremistisch gedrag in de hand werkt.
